an anecdote           
                                          
 today it rained, and i would  go outside 
 i thought, so  i smoked a  pipe  and got 
 dressed,   and  outside   the  rain  had 
 turned into  snow so  thick that  it was 
 as dense fog  ... and then i went to get 
 the  mail, but there was a woman  and we 
 talked a little. now because i  was high 
 and it was snowing  so funny and  i  had 
 an umbrella against the  snow, but  snow 
 all over my  face anyway, and i wondered 
         about myself, and my life